Living Literature’s Chapter One mainly focuses on reading being the main goal of teaching. Which I must say that I do agree, and I think that we all do. You have to be able to learn to read in order to succeed in any other subjects, or in all other subjects. The goal for us as educators is to have the children understand what they are reading and to be able to entertain their brains through literature. If you have a good book, this goal shouldn’t be difficult to achieve. Every child loves a good book. But I think that’s the hardest part of it all, is finding good books and good authors. We can’t just go throw a library together with just any books, that’s why we are taking this class, to understand the literature that we will put into our libraries in our rooms. The book asked if I truly believe that I can or should teach my students to want to read, and my answer is yes. We have to make them WANT to do it, not make them feel as if they HAVE to do it. And our beliefs do influence our students, and I believe that they can pick up on them, or feel as if we are pretending to believe something else. I am scared to be a teacher now, because San Antonio’s youth’s future resides on my shoulders, and I think we are all in the same boat, we are scared that we won’t do a good job, but we just have to try twice as hard as everyone else and give it all that we got, and I truly believe that it will be enough. As long as we say, we did all we can do for each and every child. We also as educators must always be students first, because with time, all things change. As for designing the libraries, I love the idea of making it a comfortable atmosphere. I remember when I was a kid, my 3rd grade teacher had a bunch of bean bags and headphone sets in the library area, and that was always one of my favorite centers to go to. And as I close this up about Chapter 1, the most important thing I think I read was when I saw, “Children learn what they live.” And that is so true. They do watch everything we do and learn from everything we do, so it’s very important that we show them and teach them how fun literature can be. Thanks for reading guys!
"Author Study"
"The Hippo-Not-Amus," by Tony and Jan Payne, is a large sized jumbo picture book about Portly, a hippo who finds life as a hippo pretty boring so he leaves his home and goes exploring life as another animal. It teaches the kids about all different sorts of animals, and the book is really cute and colorful.
"The Berenstain Bears, That Stump Must Go," by Stan and Jan Berenstain, is about Papa bear stubbing his toe on a tree stump and not liking it at all, so he goes to great extremes to remove it. These books were my favorite when I was a young girl. They are a must have for beginning children's literature.
"Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed," by Mo Willems, is about a mole rat named WIlbur who is different from all the others because he loves to wear clothes, but his Grandpa finds out and the story is about what he has to say about it. Very cute and children in 2nd and 3rd grade really seem to be appealled to Mo Willems' books and illustrations.
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